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■ball pray for you: for him will I ac cept: lest I deal with you after your folly» in that ye have not spoken of me the thing: which is right, like my servant Job. 0 So ICliphaz the Tenianite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, apd did according as the Lord com manded them: the Lord also accepted Job. 10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends; also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piecevof money, and every One an earring of gold. 12 So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. in He had also seven sons and three daughters. GOLDEN TEXT : «The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends” (Job 42:10). DEVOTIONAL READING: 2 Cor. 12:2-10, Outline and Exposition I. J ob ' s R epentance before G od (1-6) I N THIS, Job’s final reply to Jeho vah, he says, “I know . . . that no purpose of thine can be re strained” (v. 2, R.V.). God had revealed something of His greatness to Job by a series of questions concerning the phys ical and psychical realms—questions unanswerable by any human mind how ever cultured or erudite—and Job had recognized that greatness. Job also had come to some under standing of his own folly, and had ac knowledged: “I uttered that I under stood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not” (v. 3). Formerly he had been ready to instruct, not only his three friends, but even God Him self! But now he admitted his ignor ance and impotence. Moreover, he had come to some knowledge of himself in relation to his Maker. As long as Jehovah was hid den from Job’s eyes, Job could have no correct understanding either .of God or of himself. Being blind to the great ness and perfection and holiness of God, he was blind to his own smallness in the universe, his own imperfections, and his own sinfulness in the sigh of the holy God. But now h§ declared: “I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes” (v. 6). We usually think of re pentance as being sorrow for something
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that has been done. But Job had re viewed carefully what he had done, and he could find nothing wrong there. His repentance, therefore, was concerning what he was—not his actions, but him self. “I abhor myself,” he admitted. This is the attitude of true repentance, without which there can be no assured fellowship with, nor acceptable service for, God. Now Job was in the dust be fore God, saying, in effect, “Do with me as Thou wilt. I am vile. Whatever Thou dost do will be right and proper and just. I hate, I detest, I abhor myself.” He had learned, through the remedial sufferings which had been his lot, the truth announced long after, “I know that in me , . . dwelleth no good thing” (Rom. 7:18). H. J ob ' s R eputation with G od (7, 8) The Lord spoke to the three friends and accused, them of not having “ spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath” (v. 7.). All three were condemned and told they must seek Job’s prayers on their be half lest they be dealt with according to their folly. This announcement must have been a shock to their pride and cocksureness. But Job was God’s man, and though he was allowed to be the object of Satan’s accusations, as well as the accusations of these friends, never theless his reputation was safe in the hands of God.
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